Danny Monteverde


Visitors to St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 watch Juliette Hotard of Bayou Preservation clean the tomb of Marie Laveau.

Save Our Cemeteries

Save Our Cemeteries works to clean and preserve Marie Laveau’s tomb 

Visitors to St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 on the edge of the French Quarter got a little lagniappe during their …

Adolph and Naydja Bynum in front of their Treme home.

Preservation in Print

Meet Treme’s accidental preservationists

The Creole cottage in the 1200 block of Henriette Delille Street in Treme looks like it’s been there for as …

Barbara Lacen-Keller's daughters dance after the ribbon cutting for the park named in honor of their mother.

In The News

Barbara Lacen-Keller Park opens to fanfare in Central City 

A loud cheer followed by the sharp rat-a-tat-tat of a snare drum and the blare of a horn signaled that …

A 2nd Century Roman headstone

Preservation in Print

The mystery of how a 2,000-year-old Roman headstone wound up in a New Orleans backyard is solved 

Erin Scott O’Brien wasn’t expecting the call that came in Thursday morning while driving her daughter to school.  It was …

The building that once housed K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen, left, is The Historic New Orleans Collection's newest facility. It is located next to the HNOC's Williams Research Center in the 400 block of Chartres St.

In The News

Historic New Orleans Collection’s renovation of former K-Paul’s building nears completion 

The French Quarter building that once bustled with diners of K-Paul’s Louisiana Kitchen will soon be used for an entirely …

Richard Moe

In The News

Richard Moe, former National Trust president who assisted New Orleans after Katrina, dead at 88

Richard Moe, who marshaled the resources of the National Trust for Historic Preservation to help rebuild New Orleans after Hurricane …

Blanche Comiskey photo

In The News

Blanche Comiskey, PRC Stained Glass Tour organizer who helped save St. Alphonsus Church, dies at 94 

Blanche Mouledoux Comiskey, a longtime Preservation Resource Center volunteer who spearheaded the annual Stained Glass Art in Sacred Places Tour …

Sally Asher

Preservation in Print

I’m a Preservationist: Sally Asher

You have made a name for yourself as an author and historian who focuses on unique aspects of New Orleans. …

Preservation in Print

It was 20 years ago that Hurricane Katrina changed New Orleans forever. The PRC wasted no time responding to the storm.

It wasn’t a question of if the Preservation Resource Center would respond after Hurricane Katrina. It was how soon. The …

Frank Early's My Place Saloon

In The News

Plans to renovate former Storyville saloon pass first test

One of the last remaining buildings from Storyville, the city’s former red-light district, with ties to the early days of …

The former Oleander Hotel on Grand Isle.

In The News

The Oleander Hotel on Grand Isle is added to the National Register of Historic Places

A long-vacant hotel on Grand Isle which has hung on for nearly a century is among the newest additions to …

An architect's rendering of a hotel proposed for the 600 block of Elysian Fields Avenue.

Advocacy

Committee gives thumbs down to revised plans for proposed hotel in the Marigny

Saying it is too large and doesn’t fit in with the surrounding neighborhood, a committee on Tuesday unanimously denied the …